Acer Adding Digital Signage To Its Bring Your Own Cloud Offer May 5, 2016 by Super User Taiwan’s Acer – which is into a bunch of things, from smartphones to small PCs – is touting its Build Your Own Cloud services platform as the hub for a digital signage solution offer. It pushed out a lengthy press release this week that I can’t really make much sense of, except that “BYOC plays …
Seneca Hosting Webinar On New Commercial-Grade Digital Signage Stick PC April 5, 2016 by Super User Custom computer manufacturer Seneca is doing a webinar next week – Thursday, April 14 at 2 – on the little commercial-grade PC on a stick it recently announced. The Syracuse-based company describes the HDS as the first media stick form factor purpose-engineered for professional digital signage. There are lots of Android sticks on the market, …
Seneca To Debut Purpose-Built HD Digital Signage Stick In April March 8, 2016 by Super User HDMI media sticks have been around for a few years now – ranging from dodgy stuff that comes over by sea from Shenzhen to more credible offers like the Dell Cloud Connect stick (ARM/Android) and the Asus Chromebit (ARM/ChromeOS). Intel has been touting a Compute Stick that runs a PC x86 processor, but the reviews …
How Amazon’s Dragon Boat Could Disrupt The Digital Signage Eco-System February 17, 2016 by Super User Online shopping giant Amazon is reportedly planning to build out a global e-commerce and supply-chain network that would – among many, many things – make buying digital signage hardware from China about as easy as ordering consumer items. That matters in the context of the signage eco-system because right now the main option for buying …
Mvix Launches All-In $259 Digital Signage Player & Software Bundle September 23, 2015 by Super UserThe Sterling, Virginia-based signage firm Mvix has launched a new hardware/software bundle that gets users a teeny Intel-based player and lifetime software for just $259. Dubbed Xhibit Mykro, the set-up is an Intel Bay Trail-based player and Mvix’s cloud-based XhibitSignage software, which can be managed and updated over the Internet, supports HTML5 media playback, and has the …
Intel Releasing Ubuntu Linux Compute Stick; Specs Not Encouraging July 2, 2015 by Super User If you are a digital signage propellerhead and have been looking at the Intel Compute Stick and thinking about running one with Linux on it, it looks like that won’t work so hot. ZDnet reports that a $110 Ubuntu Linux version of the PC on a stick will go on sale next week, at least in …
Leap Motion Used As Portable Touchscreen Demo July 2, 2015 by Super User When the Leap Motion came out there was quite a bit of curiosity in this sector as to whether it could be used as a low-cost but effective alternative to expensive touchscreen overlays and add-ons. I ordered one, and tried it out, and was fairly underwhelmed by its capabilities. Then it sat on my desk …
SpinetiX Adds Entry-Level DiVA Player June 11, 2015 by Super User The Swiss company SpinetiX came on the market several years ago with a nice, teeny solid state media player and software platform, and pretty quietly built up its business in Europe and globally since then. It’s been a while since the firm has released a new hardware product, and that changes next week at InfoComm. The …
InfoComm Booth Profile: Peerless-AV June 2, 2015 by Super User Display hardware specialist Peerless-AV will be at InfoComm, and this is why company president John Potts says people in the digital signage industry need to come by booth 3401 in a couple of weeks. 1 – Why do people going to InfoComm need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Some top “must …
Seneca Puts Solid State NUC On Market May 11, 2015 by Super User The little Intel NUC seems to have generated a lot of traction as s signage player, as I often hear from vendors how they are using the little boxes. The original ones were little plastic clamshells that made a lot of tech people nervous, but the product line has predictably evolved and the enclosures are now …
